Section 34.15 - Permitted practicesNothing contained in this act shall be construed to prohibit:
(1) Persons acting under the personal supervision of an architect from carrying out their normal duties in the preparation of drawings, specifications and other design and construction documents or in administering construction contracts or in performing construction management services.(2) Engineers registered under the act of May 23, 1945 (P.L. 913, No. 367), known as the "Professional Engineers Registration Law," as amended, from performing the services for which they are duly licensed or from performing such services included in the practice of architecture as may be incidental to their engineering work.(3) The preparation of any shop drawings or the performance of construction management services by persons customarily engaged in construction work.(4) The preparation of any drawings or other design documents for detached one-family or two-family dwellings not more than three stories in height and their accessory structures.(5) The preparation of any drawings or other design documents for any utility or farm structure when such utility or farm structure is used in connection with a farm residence.(6) The preparation of any drawings or other design documents for the remodeling or alteration of a building not involving structural or egress changes or additions thereto, provided that the author of such plans or other design documents shall not receive any compensation as the author thereof.(7) Officers and employees of the Government of the United States, while engaged within this Commonwealth, in the practice of architecture for said government.(8) Any person while in the regular employment of any railroad, telephone or telegraph company engaged in interstate commerce.(9) Design-build services strictly in accordance with the following practices: a design-build entity not authorized to practice under section 13(a) through (i) may offer design-build services if the architectural services in the design-build process are provided in accordance with the following: (i) An architectural firm which has been authorized to practice architecture in this Commonwealth under section 13(a) through (i) shall independently contract with a design-build entity and is responsible for all material aspects of the practice of architecture as defined in section 3. (ii) At the time a design-build entity offers a written design-build proposal for a specific project the design-build entity shall give a written disclosure to the client stating an architect will be engaged by and will be contractually responsible to the design-build entity offering design-build services and will not be responsible to the client.(iii) The design-build entity shall agree that the architect will have direct supervision of the architectural work.(iv) The contract between the design-build entity and the client shall set forth the name of the architectural firm which will be contractually responsible to the design-build entity for providing architectural services.1982, Dec. 14, P.L. 1227, No. 281, §15, imd. effective. Amended 1998 , Feb. 18, P.L. 186, No. 31, § 2, effective in 60 days.